Robert A. Brown,  president of Boston University, and David J. Chard, former president of Wheelock College (MA) and interim dean of Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, write: Lucy Wheelock founded Wheelock College (MA) in 1888 to train kindergarten teachers. The small private institution nestled in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston focused on improving the lives of children and families by training teachers and social workers. In 2017, with only 1,000 undergraduate and master’s students and a trend of declining enrollments, the future of Wheelock College was uncertain. Closure was not imminent, but it was definitely on the horizon.